All students completing a masters’s thesis or doctoral dissertation must submit their work to ProQuest. This tutorial is divided into four sections, which match the sections on the ProQuest submission webpage:
Graduate School forms submitted by students are electronically stored in Perceptive Content (formerly known as ImageNow). All member of the graduate faculty and authorized staff may access these forms by opening the Perceptive Content program, and logging in with their Michigan Tech ISO ID and password. Students do not have access to Perceptive Content. Dissertation, thesis, or report reviews are available to students through Canvas (for pre-defense documents) or Digital Commons (for post-defense documents).
Faculty can also choose not to utilize Perceptive Content to access the student’s review. These faculty may ask their student to share the review file with them, or contact the Graduate Program Assistant for access to the file. The email notification lets the faculty member know that the review is available.
Perceptive Content may be installed on any University computer running the Windows operating system; contact IT for assistance. There is no longer a web client for Perceptive Content.
If your computer is unable to have Perceptive Content installed, the software can also be accessed on the University’s remote server, remote.mtu.edu. See information from IT on how to connect using a Windows or Mac computer and note that a VPN will be needed to access from off campus.
Once logged in, click on the “Documents” icon. If you have access to more than one set of documents, click on the arrow next to the “Documents” icon and select “Graduate School.” Note that the name of the software is now Perceptive Content, some windows in the program may still list ImageNow in the title bar of the window.
Embedding fonts in your pdf file allows anyone who opens your file to see the document as you intended. If you don’t embed a font, the pdf viewer will substitute a font if it is not available on the computer viewing the document, and the result usually isn’t what you intended.
To determine if all of your fonts are embedded in your pdf file, open your pdf file in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Tabs can be used to align text in a document. This is very useful for lining up the numbers in the table of contents, equations in the body of the document, or lining up lists of items. Spaces should never be used to line up items, since each character in a font is a different width. Precise alignment of items is only possible with a tab.
When formatting your document, you might want to see hidden characters such as:
- A space
- Paragraph marker
- Tab marker
- Section break
- Page break
To toggle which items are displayed, go to the paragraph section on the home tab: